For those wondering, here’s a Bulbapedia link to the card.

Fittingly for the Music Note Pokémon, they are arranged on the wires such that you can read the picture as sheet music. The top staff is Chatot’s cry, and the bottom is (approximately) the jingle that plays when Nurse Joy heals your Pokémon.

I saw people who recognized the above paragraph but had trouble with the actual reading of the sheet music or said the sheet music didn’t match the cry or the jingle. TL;DR: Cute attempt that half-works. Top line matches, bottom jingle doesn’t. Chatot’s cry is E♭ C A♭. This can work with the picture if you:

  • take Chatot 1’s head alone as the music note and interpret the socks as a flat to get E♭
  • take Chatot 2’s body into account for where the music note is to get C (if you only look at its head it’s D)
  • take Chatot 3’s head alone and interpret the socks as a flat again to get A♭.

You can also get a transposed version of the cry if you always take the heads alone as the note and interpret the socks as a sharp. You would get E♯ D A♯, which is equal to F D B♭.

As for the bottom staff, that is messier and I don’t see a way to interpret it as anything but one note off. The healing jingle is B B B G♯ E.

  • The first three Chatots are easily interpreted as three Bs looking at their heads.
  • The fifth Chatot is just E whether you look at only head or also include body.
  • So the fourth Chatot needs to be G♯. Instead, going by its head it is F, and the socks as accidentals cannot help us there: the highest up you can go would be a double sharp making this just a plain G. The only other interpretation for the fourth Chatot is E if you look at its body, and that is even worse.

We could be flexible and look at the bodies of the first three Chatots too, and choose it to be three As. Then the fourth Chatot could be F with the socks interpreted as a sharp to give us F♯. That works with a transposed version of the healing jingle: A A A F♯ D. Unfortunately, we cannot finish it off with the fifth Chatot as D because there is really no way to interpret that final Chatot as anything but E. The notes are physically close to what the right ones would be, so it’s not as if it’s absolutely random notes placed by someone who knows no more of music than what 🎶🎵🎼 looks like, but it’s also still not right.

And of course, all this reinterpretation to fit around the tiny sound bits means that there is no consistent reading of the Chatots (e.g. head always indicates note, or head plus body always indicates note) that works.

At least props for trying. I am fairly new to the mainline series, still just playing through SoulSilver, so let me know if I missed anything or if that jingle on the second staff is intended to be something else!